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  • From refuse to rebirth: repositioning the pot burial in theEgyptian archaeological record

  • Ronika K. Power, Yann Tristant
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 354 / December 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 November 2016, pp. 1474-1488
    Print publication:
    December 2016

  • The interment of bodies in ceramic vessels, or ‘pot burial’, was awidespread practice across the ancient world. Commonly associated withpoverty, and with child and infant burials, the reuse of domestic vesselsfor burial has been taken to indicate that low value was assigned to thecontainers and their contents. New analysis urges a more holistic andculturally situated understanding. Contradictory evidence reveals that thisburial practice was also used for adults and is represented in high-statustombs. Far from being recycled ‘rubbish’, the ceramic containers may havereflected symbolic associations between pots, wombs and eggs, facilitatingrebirth and transition into the afterlife.